Discursive flows in South African jazz studies: Texts, contexts, and subtexts

TY - JOUR

T1 - Discursive flows in South African jazz studies: Texts, contexts, and subtexts

AU - Ramanna, Nishlyn

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This essay reviews a range of scholarly writings about South African jazz that have appeared as monographs, journal articles, and postgraduate dissertations over the past three decades. It identifies two main streams of research that are respectively contextual or textual in their focus: firstly, social histories of South African jazz culture and/or biographies of particular musicians that consider their lives in the light of these histories; secondly, close musical analyses of particular styles, compositions, and recorded improvisations, and literary analyses of journalistic and creative writings about Souht African jazz culture. It explains how the essays in this volume contribute to the discursive flows within and across these streams by explicitly and/or implicitly calling for a broadening, deepening, or refirecting of existing channles of inquiry

AB - This essay reviews a range of scholarly writings about South African jazz that have appeared as monographs, journal articles, and postgraduate dissertations over the past three decades. It identifies two main streams of research that are respectively contextual or textual in their focus: firstly, social histories of South African jazz culture and/or biographies of particular musicians that consider their lives in the light of these histories; secondly, close musical analyses of particular styles, compositions, and recorded improvisations, and literary analyses of journalistic and creative writings about Souht African jazz culture. It explains how the essays in this volume contribute to the discursive flows within and across these streams by explicitly and/or implicitly calling for a broadening, deepening, or refirecting of existing channles of inquiry

M3 - Article

SN - 0043-8774

VL - 5 number 2

SP - 7

EP - 29

JO - WORLD OF MUSIC

JF - WORLD OF MUSIC

IS - 0043-8774

ER -